{"id":41839,"date":"2020-11-13T22:02:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T06:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=41839"},"modified":"2020-11-13T22:02:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T06:02:21","slug":"squatchs-open-thread-13-november-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/13\/squatchs-open-thread-13-november-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatch’s Open Thread 13 November 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has been a busy week for me what with a bit of medical mayhem (nothing serious), correcting the grammar, spelling and presentation of a midterm exam for a friend, finishing up my Indigenous studies course through the U of Alberta (online) with about 90%, getting the post about Remembrance Day\/Veterans’ Day out and of course following some of the snivelling of the Republicans and der F\u00fchrer of the 5th Reich.\u00a0 Talk about unadulterated bull shit!\u00a0 I thought that we all need a little lighter fare at this time.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If anybody ever needed proof that the Trump elevator was not capable of going to the top, Eric Trump provided it in abundance!\u00a0 This from The Hill<\/a> <\/strong>—\u00a0<\/span>ABC News\u00a0reported last week\u00a0that the hotline, which also directed callers to a voicemail box, was flooded with messages mocking the campaign in the wake of President-elect Joe Biden winning the race for the White House.<\/p>\r\n

The president’s son, Eric Trump, last week claimed that the Democratic National Committee was “spamming our voter fraud hotline,” although he did not provide evidence for the allegation.<\/p>\r\n

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The @DNC<\/a> is spamming our voter fraud hotline to bog down the thousands of complaints we are receiving! Wonder what they have to hide.<\/div>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n
Or how about this tweet from Eric Trump which appeared last Tuesday — notice the date!<\/span><\/div>\r\n
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And here I thought that Trump was both trying to stop the count and suing states for accepting ballots after election day.\u00a0 This seems like a twofer, but not the kind you want!\u00a0 As I said, the elevator does not go to the top!\u00a0 My 3 cats are smarter than Eric!<\/span><\/div>\r\n
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Then there is this from the New York Times<\/strong><\/a><\/span> — In his first big interview as a senator-elect, Tommy Tuberville, Republican of Alabama, misidentified the three branches of the federal government, claimed erroneously that World War II was a battle against socialism and wrongly asserted that former Vice President Al Gore was president-elect for 30 days. …\u00a0<\/div>\r\n
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\u201cOur government wasn\u2019t set up for one group to have all three branches of government \u2014 wasn\u2019t set up that way,\u201d Mr. Tuberville said. \u201cYou know, the House, the Senate, and the executive.\u201d …<\/div>\r\n
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\u201cThat\u2019s concerning to me, that we\u2019re to the point now where we\u2019ve got almost half the country voting for something that this country wasn\u2019t built on,\u201d Mr. Tuberville said. \u201cI tell people, my dad fought 76 years ago in Europe to free Europe of socialism.\u201d<\/div>\r\n
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World War II was a global battle against fascism. …<\/div>\r\n
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And in another exchange, he erroneously said that Mr. Gore, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2000, was president-elect for 30 days during an intense, protracted recount and legal battle. Neither Mr. Gore nor George W. Bush were considered the president-elect during that process.<\/div>\r\n
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Is this the best that Trump and Republicans can do?\u00a0 I think Tuberville took one too many hits to his cranium!\u00a0 What is worse, what does this say about the Alabama voters who sent him to Washington?<\/span><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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And again from the lighter side, NYDailyNews.com<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>— The late John McCain may have gotten the last world in his rivalry with President Trump \u2014 and it was delivered by the war hero\u2019s daughter Meghan McCain.<\/div>\r\n
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That comment parodies remarks made by Trump mocking the former Arizona senator for being a prisoner of war in Vietnam. …<\/div>\r\n
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\u201cI like people that weren\u2019t captured,\u201d Trump\u00a0said in 2015, claiming his fellow Republican statesman, who died in 2018, wasn\u2019t respectful toward Trump supporters. …<\/div>\r\n
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Trump also called the Navy veteran a \u201closer\u201d because he lost to Barack Obama in the 2008 election.<\/div>\r\n
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I wonder if Trump sees himself in McCain as he lost the whole country to Joe Biden?\u00a0 Karma can be such a bitch!<\/span><\/div>\r\n
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YouTube<\/strong> — Seth Myers with a Closer Look<\/span><\/p>\r\n